This guide uses Eclipse IDE for Java Developers version. Verify the Java version on your machine: java -versionĭownload latest eclipse package. Run the following commands to complete this task: apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running these following apt-get commands in the terminal. I will show you through the step by step installation Eclipse IDE on a Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) server.

The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. It is written in Java program and can be used to develop Java based applications and other various plugins, including languages like C, C++, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby and Rails framework and much more.

Eclipse is an open source and free multi-language and multi-platform (Windows, Linux and Mac) software development program that used to build JAVA based web applications.

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